Chef - Evolving with Infrastructure Automation

Nathaniel Brown nshb@ .com CHEFInfrastructure Automation Evolving with

co-founder at

co-founder at “The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online”

co-founder at “The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online” ( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com )

co-founder at “The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online” ( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com ) ( we’re also hiring, so check out http://jobs.vidli.com )

co-founder at “The Place to Buy, Sell, and Trade Videos Online” ( we have a limited beta invite going on, sign up at http://vidli.com ) ( we’re also hiring, so check out http://jobs.vidli.com ) we also have a VMS called

Produced Canada on Rails back in April 2006 The industry’s ﬁrst Rails conference in the world

13 years tech exec / management / consultant • Start-ups / Fortune 500 • Content / Digital / Video Management Systems • eCommerce & Metric / Analytic Systems (Omniture and such) • Event Producer, Speaker, Workshop Instructor

and... perity.com

But Who is Chef?

(oh no, please don’t take my picture) But Who is Chef?

Chef is Your Server Samurai

More like the General of Server Samurai

Who Takes All Your Operating Systems (For Both Servers and Desktops)

And Normalizes Them Into One • Ubuntu (8.04-9.10) • FreeBSD (7.1) • Debian (5.0) • OpenBSD (4.4) • RHEL & CentOS (5.x) • Mac OS X (10.4, 10.5) • Gentoo (1.12.11.1) • OpenSolaris (2008.11)

Chef to the Rescue

Three Quick Wins With Chef

(soon) New hires get a company environment setup instantly by running your custom bootstrap

Be able to rapidly and reliably modify and clone the DNA of each applications server environment for everyone ... and have history doing such

Make Amazon AMI’s with Chef Pre Loaded Automatically Scale mission critical servers up or down Companies to Help: $0.03/hr - Small $0.24/hr - Extra Large $21.36/mo - Small $170.88/mo - Extra Large

Chef is Made by . .

Chef is Made by . . $2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ

Chef is Made by . . $2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle

Chef is Made by . . $2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle 4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry

Chef is Made by . . $2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle 4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry 10 Employees

Chef is Made by . . $2.5 Million VC Funded by DFJ ~2 Week Release Cycle 4 Founders from Full Infrastructure Automation Industry 10 Employees Open Source under the Apache License v2.0

Who Uses Chef? (some are indirectly through EngineYard’s infrastructure)

Why Might a Chef Be Needed?

You have only one person in your company who knows what’s going on with your servers

You have servers with custom conﬁgurations that only the person who set it up has any idea what they are and he probably forgets them now too (if asked to mimic settings of course).

You rely on your extensive photographic memory to build new servers by hand ...

You rely on your extensive photographic memory to build new servers by hand ... Seriously?

How Does The Chef Client / Server Work?

Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center

Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new)

Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new) Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center

Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new) Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center Server Node Compiles Cookbooks and Executes Them

Server Node (Chef Client) Registers with Server Command Center Secure Public / Private Key Authentication (new) Server Node Syncs CookBooks with Server Command Center Server Node Compiles Cookbooks and Executes Them Server Node Checks Server Command Center at Next Regular Timed Interval

Chef Nomenclature Resources Deﬁnitions Libraries Providers

Chef Nomenclature Users & Groups Resources Files Services HTTP Deﬁnitions Libraries Providers

Chef Nomenclature • Package Users & Groups • Meta • Remote Directory Resources Files • • • Directory Execute Cron • • Remote File Route Services • Ruby Block • Link HTTP • Script • Mount • Template Deﬁnitions Libraries Providers

Chef Nomenclature • Package Users & Groups • Meta • Remote Directory Resources Files • • • Directory Execute Cronjobs • • Remote File Route Services • Ruby Block • Link HTTP • Script • Mount • Template Deﬁnitions Large Resource Wrappers Libraries Providers

Chef Nomenclature • Package Users & Groups • Meta • Remote Directory Resources Files • • • Directory Execute Cron • • Remote File Route Services • Ruby Block • Link HTTP • Script • Mount • Template Deﬁnitions Large Resource Wrappers Libraries Dump Zone for Custom Code Providers

Chef Nomenclature • Package Users & Groups • Meta • Remote Directory Resources Files • • • Directory Execute Cron • • Remote File Route Services • Ruby Block • Link HTTP • Script • Mount • Template Deﬁnitions Large Resource Wrappers Libraries Dump Zone for Custom Code Providers Action Controller For Resources

Chef Nomenclature Resources Attributes Deﬁnitions Libraries } Recipes CookBooks Providers

Chef Nomenclature Resources Attributes Deﬁnitions Libraries } Recipes CookBooks } Roles Providers

Chef Nomenclature Resources Attributes Deﬁnitions Libraries } Recipes CookBooks } } Roles Nodes Providers

Chef Tools & Infrastructure Chef Indexer Stomp & Ferret indexing for all conﬁg and CookBook info

Chef Tools & Infrastructure Chef Indexer Stomp & Ferret indexing for all conﬁg and CookBook info Chef Client (aka Server Node) Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders

Chef Tools & Infrastructure Chef Indexer Stomp & Ferret indexing for all conﬁg and CookBook info Chef Client (aka Server Node) Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders Chef Server (with API) The Command Center for Server Nodes

Chef Tools & Infrastructure Chef Indexer Stomp & Ferret indexing for all conﬁg and CookBook info Chef Client (aka Server Node) Sits on Each Server Waiting for Orders Chef Server (with API) The Command Center for Server Nodes Chef Solo When You Want a One Off Server That Doesn’t Auto Update

Golden Path (at least for Chef Server)

https://chef.vidli.com/cookbooks/apache2 (Private Cookbook Demo)

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Chef - Evolving with Infrastructure Automation

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